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Eugenie Goldstern

Eugenie Goldstern Eugenie Goldstern (1884-1942) Austrian ethnographic photographer and anthropologist Eugenie Goldstern was born into a large Jewish family in Odessa, but moved to Austria in 1905 where she began studying anthropology at the University of Vienna in 1910. She created the first ever monograph of a community when she spent a…

Becky Handley13th November 2020

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Claude Cahun

Claude Cahun was best known for their Surrealist self-portraits

Becky Handley5th September 2020

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South African Pioneers

A snapshot of some of the early women photographers in South Africa

Del Barrett5th September 2020

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Norah Lyle-Smyth

Norah documented the early years of British suffrage and the ground-breaking work of socialist Sylvia Pankhurst in London’s East End.

Becky Handley27th August 2020

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Constance Stuart Larrabee

Constance Stuart Larrabee was remarkable on many levels, from owning her own photography studio to photographing from war zones

Gabby Kynoch15th February 2020

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Gertrude Käsebier

For legendary photographer Gertrude Käsebier (1852–1934), photography was a means to escape an unhappy marriage and become financially independent.

Gabby Kynoch12th November 2019

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Franki Raffles

Edinburgh-based Franki Raffles (1955 - 1994) was a social documentarian and feminist photographer who died tragically young.

Gabby Kynoch17th September 2019

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Lillian Bassman

Lillian Bassman’s (1917-2012) fashion photography appeared on the pages of Harper's Bazaar from the 1940's to the 1960's. Her self-taught, experimental and dreamlike approach brought an elegance to fashion photography and elevated it to an art form.

Gabby Kynoch15th September 2019

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Hilla Wobeser Becher

Pioneers of industrial architecture photography, Hilla Becher (1931 - 2015) with partner Bernd, were known for their black and white typology photography.

Gabby Kynoch1st September 2019

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Lotte Jacobi

Coming from a long line of photographers, German-born Lotte Jacobi (1896-1990) was known for her intimate, dramatic and often experimental portraits in the ‘New Vision’ style of the late 1920s and 30s. After fleeing Hitler’s Germany, she re-established herself as a portraitist in New York and moved into abstraction and landscape photography…

Gabby Kynoch16th June 2019